Scottish skiing is ace! You can only dream about the fluffy, soft powder snow, wide open pistes and zero lift queues of say, Stranda... as soon as there's a hint of white stuff in the air, the Scottish centres will try all sorts of dubious marketings scams to get you up there. They would even have hired Eirik Raude if they could (Erik the Red - of the naming Greenland real estate scam) - however he's not available since he was a blood thirsty viking and he died in about 1020AD.
So visitscotland had Glencoe down as the place to go...
"Runs at the top of the hill are good. Lower runs can be thin in places. Occasional icy patches."
correct translation - upper runs have some snow although bumpy, watch out for rocks and bare patches. Lower runs borderline, suicidal in places, severely manicly depressed throughout.
It was good to ski around the turf!
The best bit about today's skiing was surviving the Etive Glades blue run which was as bumpy as a conference of chinese emporors at the top, icy amongst the gravel and turf spots lower down. The new (ebay) telemark skis were a revelation - if I can survive the bumps, turf and ice of Glencoe on a good day, then I may even be able to get down La Face next week...
Alps in week, ye-haaaa!
Of course, snow is forecast in the Highlands this week coming so before heading down to Courchevel there may well be time for an afternoon/evening trip down Cairngorm's white lady run...
